#painter

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. ↗

— Franka Potente

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The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

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I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#i can #just #make #movies #paint

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

#attention #conversation #critic #even #i

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. ↗

— Philip Guston

#come #delirium #i #i am #into

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#bad #because #couple #just #just because